In a curious coincidence with the film he starred in several years ago, Will Smith shared what he learned about the pursuit of human happiness. During a podcast interview Full Send, The 55-year-old actor explained his perspective on life and how he focuses on finding “true joy” focusing on internal balance after knowing what he calls “the top of the cliff.”
“People talk about the bottom of the abyss, and I coined a phrase that describes a similar place, I call it the top of the cliff,” he explained. “There is no more sex that is anything more than just movement. There is no more money. There’s no more success, and it’s a fucking abyss”.
According to Smith, it is at this point that one realizes that there are no more external gratifications that can fill the internal void. Therefore, the situation pushes one to make decisions.
“So you realize that the bigger goal is to get your inner home in order, right? Without women, without drugs, without money, without anything, can you cultivate a spirit of joy with just yourself?”, reflected the celebrity. “And dealing with that is exhausting.”
Later, the hosts of the show asked him how it got to that point. “Just exhaust the joys of this world and you’re going to have a really hard night, and you’re going to be lying there alone and nothing is going to mean anything to you,” Smith explained.
“All that wishing, all that clawing, all that scratching… and then you gotta make peace with it, bro. And you realize that ecstasy is not happiness, peace is happiness, balance“concluded the actor.
After a difficult time in Hollywood due to the slap incident at the Oscars, Will Smith seeks to reconcile with the public. This month it premiered Bad Boys: Ride or Die, fourth installment of the action franchise in which he co-stars Martin Lawrence. The story resumes the adventures of detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Bennett, central characters in the saga that began in 1995.
Smith was accompanied by his wife Jada Pinkett Smith at the premiere in Los Angeles. The actor’s children ―Jaden, Willow and Trey― were also present on the red carpet along with Jada’s mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris.
In exclusive statements for Entertainment Tonightthe figure of men in black He commented on the meaning of seeing his children, now adults, at the event. “It was beautiful to see our children together. Because Trey and Jasmine (Martin Lawrence’s eldest daughter) are almost the same age. We had newborns at the time of the first Bad Boys. So having them here in their thirties is like [impresionante]“said the actor.
Likewise, despite revealing in an interview with NBC last October that she and Will have been separated since 2016, Jada Pinkett Smith He said that they will not go through a legal divorce. “I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get divorced,” she said. “We will work through whatever it is, and I have not been able to break that commitment.”
In the projection of Bad Boys 4 organized in New York, Smith also recounted an emotional memory of his first day recording again with Martin Lawrence.
In an unexpected moment, Lawrence stopped and expressed his affection: “I love you, brother,” his partner said, according to Smith in the magazine. PEOPLE. He thought it was a standard greeting, although Laurence later reiterated that it was a genuine expression of brotherly affection. “We are going to have fun making this movie. “We’re not going to rush this one,” Will replied. “And it was like he set the tone for the film.”
